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Scott Walker retweeted
There's a fight being waged over how U.S. securities markets will move onchain.
One side wants to perpetuate intermediation. The other wants to open the door to disintermediation.
This week, @a16zcrypto again urged the SEC/CFTC to embrace the latter.
CCOs: who wants to collect and publish founders' race, gender and sexual orientation? Asking for this data right after deal-close is a strange way to kick off a healthy investor relationship. It puts founder privacy at risk without improving access to capital.
@a16z's position to the California DFPI: dfpi.ca.gov/wp-content/uploa…
Scott Walker retweeted
This is a 2 minute video about taxing the wealthy.
There is no mention of programs it will fund. Or why the tax dollars are needed. Or what the money would be used for. Or how those less fortunate could be supported to themselves become wealthy.
The benefits are no longer the point.
The implicit message is about punishment. Punishing those doing well is now good politics.
Sign of the times —
It's time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.
10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed.
The system is fundamentally broken.
The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans.
It’s time for an economic reset.
substack.com/@gavinnewsom
Scott Walker retweeted
Teddy was always pure class on and off the field.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure will continue in heaven 🙏🏻
Scott Walker retweeted
We are deeply saddened to hear the news of coaches passing. Hard to even know where to start with a man like Coach Wolford. One of a kind and total servant to others. A blessing to the lacrosse community for all that he gave and a legend here in central Ohio. He will forever be remembered for his passion for the game and even more importantly his dedication to developing young men. He has touched the lives of so many. Grateful for the time we shared over the past 25 years and for all that he has done for me, my two boys and everything he has given to the medicine game & Upper Arlington community. A legend that will be forever remembered! Much love coach ❤️ RIP
Scott Walker retweeted
This week we posted four stories that point toward a future of open, programmable markets.
From tokenized securities to perps to onchain lending, financial infrastructure is being rebuilt to be more global, more liquid, and more software-driven.
Here’s what we published:
Scott Walker retweeted
Huge win for DeFi today.
The SEC's guidance on DeFi frontends makes one thing abundantly clear –– securities laws don't apply just because users are transacting in securities.
Rather, what matters is whether the frontend is exposing users to the same types of intermediary risks that securities laws were designed to address.
The SEC's guidance explains exactly what that means –– providing a roadmap for developers and addressing ambiguities in broker-dealer regs that were inappropriately weaponized against the industry by the prior admin.
Critically, order routing isn't prohibited. But where it is done, apps need to be completely transparent so users aren't subjected to conflicts of interest risk. That makes sense and is an honest application of existing law.
This is what effective policy looks like. Huge thanks are owed to the SEC CTF for advancing this and bringing clarity for developers.
Moving the financial system onchain unlocks instant settlement, 24/7 markets, and cost reductions that TradFi simply can't match.
But fully realizing that vision requires clear rules for the blockchain applications that let investors transact peer-to-peer, without intermediaries.
Today former SEC Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Director Craig Lewis has published an economic analysis of a16z's and the DeFi Education Fund's safe harbor proposal for those apps.
His conclusion: while there are tradeoffs, the economic case is compelling. The benefits of tokenized securities are real, and the proposal provides a sound framework for capturing them. Professor Lewis has drawn the map. We hope the SEC will follow it.
Scott Walker retweeted
Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.
Scott Walker retweeted
I am excited to expand our partnership with @BoozAllen
We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking, multi-year partnership with Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z), one of the world’s most influential venture capital firms. As a16z’s first-ever Technology Acceleration Partner for Governments, Booz Allen will bring our mission expertise and tech industry leadership to a16z’s world-class portfolio of 1,000+ top tech companies.
Through this partnership, Booz Allen will accelerate how we co-create, scale, and deploy highly differentiated commercial tech into critical U.S. missions—strengthening America’s security, technological supremacy, and prosperity like never before. Let’s go: boozallen.co/3Z8yhRG
Nice work, @packyM! Notwithstanding the 'bias,' 😅 this case study is superb & meticulous.
“a16z is betting that it can help make that future bigger and better than it would otherwise be, sooner, through policy and platform and power, and help its portfolio companies win in the process.”
“Based on my conversations with a16z’s founders, this bet seems to be paying off today, and it is an unbelievably asymmetric one. Each win can pay for a lot of capabilities. The machine compounds.
The most interesting bet it’s making, in my opinion, in light of the first two, is the one that seems most obvious, when you put it like I’m about to put it:
That a VC firm can, like nearly every other type of company in the universe, get better with scale.”
Read more from Packy McCormick: notboring.co/p/a16z-the-powe…
Not an offer or solicitation. None of the information herein should be taken as investment advice; Some of the companies mentioned are portfolio companies of a16z. Please see a16z.com/disclosures/ for more information. A list of investments made by a16z is available at a16z.com/portfolio.
Scott Walker retweeted
We don’t need to choose between innovation and safety. America can build world-class AI products while protecting its citizens from harms.
Read the full piece on how we can protect Americans and win the future: a16zpolicy.substack.com/p/a-…
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